# Burton Morris artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/burton-morris/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:29:06.737Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Pop art, Contemporary Pop art
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Burton Morris](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Burton_Morris_with_Coca-Cola_painting.jpg/1280px-Burton_Morris_with_Coca-Cola_painting.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burton_Morris_with_Coca-Cola_painting.jpg

## About Burton Morris

Burton Morris (born 1964) is an American artist associated with contemporary Pop art. Public profiles describe bold, graphic paintings that transform familiar icons and everyday objects into sharply simplified images. Vivid color and radiant outlines are recurring features of his documented style, connecting the work to popular culture and the visual language of recognizable symbols. Collectors may encounter Morris through paintings centered on modern icons or ordinary objects presented with an emphatic, high-impact treatment. Wikidata and VIAF identify him as an American artist, while VIAF connects his identity to Library of Congress, ISNI, and German National Library authority records. These identifiers help distinguish his work and auction records from those of similarly named people. The available evidence is strongest on identity and broad artistic context, but remains limited regarding a detailed career chronology, exhibitions, named series, and institutional collection history.

## Common works and media

Public profiles most clearly document paintings in a bold, graphic Pop art style. Commonly described subjects include modern icons, recognizable objects, and imagery drawn from popular culture, often rendered with vivid colors and radiant outlines. The collected evidence does not reliably establish prints, editions, sculptures, ceramics, or other categories as common parts of Morris's auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, first confirm that the object and its documentation point to Burton Morris, the American Pop artist represented by the cited authority records. The strongest source-pack indicators are work type and visual context: graphic Pop art paintings, familiar modern icons, everyday objects, vivid color, and radiant outlines. Those attributes can organize research, but they do not authenticate a work by themselves. Appraisily auction records, when available, should be filtered toward genuinely comparable lots and reviewed by sale date and realized price. The collected evidence does not include detailed auction-house catalogue entries, so it cannot support claims about price direction, rarity, edition size, or the relative importance of particular series. Any valuation should remain object-specific and evidence-led.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142827
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/160276466/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Morris
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Morris
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/burton-morris/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burton_Morris_with_Coca-Cola_painting.jpg